Topic:Esperanto

Subject classification: this is a language learning resource.

Bonvenon!

Welcome to the Esperanto Department at Wikiversity, part of the Center for Foreign Language Learning and the School of Language and Literature.

Introduction

Esperanto is a constructed language that was published in 1887 by Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhof with the intention for it to become the language of international communication. Although it has fallen short of this ambitious goal, Esperanto is by far the most successful constructed language. Esperanto is much easier to learn than any typical natural language and learning it has a positive effect on learning more languages.

• Esperanto at Wikipedia
• Why Esperanto is different
• Wikibooks Esperanto Textbook
• The Esperanto Teacher
• Dr. Esperanto's International Language

Course

Completion status: this resource is just getting off the ground. Please feel welcome to help!
Vocabulary

This course is supposed to become one that takes the learner from the basics through all the intricacies of the language.

• Lesson 1 — Pronunciation, parts of speech, noun basics, article, a few personal pronouns, present tense
• Lesson 2 — Pronunciation (repetition), adjective basics, verb basics, personal pronouns, affixes (mal- + -ino)
• Lesson 3 — Adverbs, ĉu, the suffix -n, counting
• Lesson 4 — Basic derivation, [pronunciation test+additional practice?]
• Lesson 5 — Introduction to the correlatives, more basic verb morphology
• Lesson 6 — Advanced derivation, comparisons
• Lesson 7 —
• Lesson 8 —
• Lesson 9 —

Language references

• Esperanto Wiktionary
• Word index on (the English) Wiktionary
• The sixteen rules of Esperanto grammar

External links

• Esperanto Organizations
• English–Esperanto Dictionary

Department news

• December 21, 2012 — First lesson launched!
• December 3, 2011 — This page is being cleaned up.
• December 11, 2006 — Department founded!